PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Academic Appointments
Assistant Clinical Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (current)
Assistant Clinical Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Hospital Affiliations: Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center
BOOKS
1. Packer, Sharon: Dreams in Myth, Medicine & Movies (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002).
2. Packer, Sharon: Movies & the Modern Psyche (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007).
3. Packer, Sharon: Superheroes and Superegos: The Minds Behind the Masks. ABC-Clio (Praeger, 2010).
4. Packer, Sharon: Cinema’s Sinister Psychiatrists (Jefferson, SC: McFarland, 2012).
5. Packer, Sharon and Jody Pennington (eds.): The History of Evil in American Popular Culture: What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King and Vampire Reveal about America (2 volumes). (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2014).
6. Packer, Sharon: Neuroscience in Science Fiction Films. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015).
7. Packer, Sharon (ed.): Mental Illness in Popular Culture. (Santa Barbara , CA: ABC-Clio, 2017).
8. Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019).
9. Packer, Sharon (ed.): Lenses on Blindness: Essays on Vision Loss in Media, Culture, Religion and Experience. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023).
10. Packer, Sharon (ed.): Madhouse Movies (in press, McFarland).
2. Packer, Sharon: Movies & the Modern Psyche (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007).
3. Packer, Sharon: Superheroes and Superegos: The Minds Behind the Masks. ABC-Clio (Praeger, 2010).
4. Packer, Sharon: Cinema’s Sinister Psychiatrists (Jefferson, SC: McFarland, 2012).
5. Packer, Sharon and Jody Pennington (eds.): The History of Evil in American Popular Culture: What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King and Vampire Reveal about America (2 volumes). (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2014).
6. Packer, Sharon: Neuroscience in Science Fiction Films. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015).
7. Packer, Sharon (ed.): Mental Illness in Popular Culture. (Santa Barbara , CA: ABC-Clio, 2017).
8. Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019).
9. Packer, Sharon (ed.): Lenses on Blindness: Essays on Vision Loss in Media, Culture, Religion and Experience. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023).
10. Packer, Sharon (ed.): Madhouse Movies (in press, McFarland).
BOOK CHAPTERS
11. Packer, Sharon: What’s in a Name? Madhouse Movies or Insane Asylum Cinema or Funny Farm Films? In Madhouse Movies (McFarland, in press).
12. Packer, Sharon: Where Is My Child? A Weird Welcome to America in Madhouse Movies (McFarland, in press).
13. Packer, Sharon: Romanticized Renditions vs. Realistic Depictions: The World of “Weepies” in in Madhouse Movies (McFarland, in press).
14. Packer, Sharon: “How Did a Nice Jewish Girl Like You Get So Interested in Asia?” in Eastern Religions, Spirituality and Psychiatry (ed. HS Moffic et al). Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2024.
15. Packer, Sharon: “Idioms and Ideas: Meanings and Metaphors” in Lenses on Blindness: Essays on Vision Loss in Media, Culture, Religion and Experience (ed. Sharon Packer). Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023.
16. Packer, Sharon: “Treating Christian Patients as a Non-Christian Psychiatrist” in Christianity and Psychiatry (ed. JR Peteet et al). Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2021.
17. Packer, Sharon: “How the Holocaust/Shoah Helped Shape 20th Century American Psychiatry in Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry (eds. H Steven Moffic, JR Peteet, Ahmed Hankir, MV Seeman). Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2020.
18. Packer, Sharon: “APA Jewish-American Toolkit” (Division of Diversity and Health Equity), American Psychiatric Association, 2020.
19. Packer, Sharon: “Arkham Asylum, Psychiatry, Science & Society” in Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
20. Packer, Sharon: “Harley Quinn and The Joker: Pitfalls of Doctor-Patient Romances” in Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
21. Packer, Sharon: “Murderous Minds, Arkham Villains and Real (not Reel) Life Movie Massacres” in Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
22. Packer, Sharon: “Arkham’s Sinister Psychiatrists and the Continuum with Caligari” in Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
23. Packer, Sharon: “Surrealism’s Influence on Arkham & Psychiatry’s Influence on Surrealism” in Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019. 24. Packer, Sharon: “Unethical Experiments in Arkham and Elsewhere” in Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
25. Packer, Sharon: “Why Arkham, Why Now?” in Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
26. Packer, Sharon: “From Halfworld to Hellboy: Psychiatric Asylums and Mignola’s Comics Art” in The Mignolaverse: Hellboy and the Comics Art of Mike Mignola (ed. S.G. Hammond). Edswardville, Ill: Sequard, 2019, 82-100.
27. Packer, Sharon: “Ansky’s The Dybbuk, Freud’s Future of an Illusion, Watson’s “Little Albert,” and Supernatural Horror in Literature” in New Directions in Supernatural Horror (ed. Sean Moreland). New York: Palgrave-Macmillian, 2018, 61-75.
28. Packer, Sharon: “Jessica Jones (Superhero), Women and Alcohol Use Disorders” in Jessica
29. Jones, Scarred Superhero (ed. Tim Rayburn and Abigail Keyes). Jefferson, SC: McFarland, 2018.
30. Packer, Sharon: “Halfworld’s Loonies in Rocket Raccoon Comics: Serious or Satire” in Mental Illness in Popular Culture (ed. Sharon Packer). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2017, 265-276.
31. Packer, Sharon: “Arkham Asylum’s Criminally Insane Inmates and Psychotic Psychiatrists” in Mental Illness in Popular Culture (ed. Sharon Packer). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2017, 253-264.
32. Packer, Sharon: Revised Review of Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man (with an emphasis on logotherapy & Viktor Frankl) in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: Proceedings of the Viktor Frankl Institute, Volume I (ed. A. Batthyany). Springer International AG, Char, 2016, 411-415.
33. Packer, Sharon: “Stress, Religion & Superheroes” in Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotions & Behavior (ed. M Fink), Academic Press, 2016, 465-475.
34. Packer, Sharon: “Demon Drugs or Demon Children, Take Your Pick” in Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema’s Holy Terrors (eds. Markus P.J. Bohlmann and Sean Moreland, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015, 173-177.
35. Packer, Sharon: “Hannibal: His History and His Heirs” in The History of Evil in American Popular Culture: What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King and Vampire Reveal about America, Volume 2. (Eds. Sharon Packer and Jody Pennington): Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2014, 64-75.
36. Packer, Sharon: “Bad Psychiatrists in Batman: A Mirror into a Murderer’s Mind? in The History of Evil in American Popular Culture: What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King and Vampire Reveal about America, Volume 2. (Eds. Sharon Packer and Jody Pennington). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2014, 181-193.
37. Packer, Sharon: Spider-Man’s Symbiote and the Early AIDS Epidemic. History of Medicine, February 2014.
38. Packer, Sharon: “Stress & Religion” (updated and revised) in Encyclopedia of Stress, Second Edition (ed. M Fink), Academic Press, 2007.
39. Packer, Sharon: “Stress and Religion after 9/11” in Encyclopedia of Stress, Second Edition (ed. M Fink), Academic Press, 2007.
40. Packer, Sharon: “The Colorblind Cyberclass” in Race in the College Class (ed. B Tusmith & M Reddy), Rutgers U Press, 264-276, 2002.
41. Packer, Sharon: “Stress & Religion” in Encyclopedia of Stress (ed. M. Fink). Academic Press, Vol. III, 1998, 348-355.
42. Packer, Sharon: “Tribute to Harry Friedenwald, Historian of Medicine” in Jewish Book Annual (ed. Philip Miller), 1997.
12. Packer, Sharon: Where Is My Child? A Weird Welcome to America in Madhouse Movies (McFarland, in press).
13. Packer, Sharon: Romanticized Renditions vs. Realistic Depictions: The World of “Weepies” in in Madhouse Movies (McFarland, in press).
14. Packer, Sharon: “How Did a Nice Jewish Girl Like You Get So Interested in Asia?” in Eastern Religions, Spirituality and Psychiatry (ed. HS Moffic et al). Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2024.
15. Packer, Sharon: “Idioms and Ideas: Meanings and Metaphors” in Lenses on Blindness: Essays on Vision Loss in Media, Culture, Religion and Experience (ed. Sharon Packer). Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023.
16. Packer, Sharon: “Treating Christian Patients as a Non-Christian Psychiatrist” in Christianity and Psychiatry (ed. JR Peteet et al). Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2021.
17. Packer, Sharon: “How the Holocaust/Shoah Helped Shape 20th Century American Psychiatry in Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry (eds. H Steven Moffic, JR Peteet, Ahmed Hankir, MV Seeman). Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2020.
18. Packer, Sharon: “APA Jewish-American Toolkit” (Division of Diversity and Health Equity), American Psychiatric Association, 2020.
19. Packer, Sharon: “Arkham Asylum, Psychiatry, Science & Society” in Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
20. Packer, Sharon: “Harley Quinn and The Joker: Pitfalls of Doctor-Patient Romances” in Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
21. Packer, Sharon: “Murderous Minds, Arkham Villains and Real (not Reel) Life Movie Massacres” in Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
22. Packer, Sharon: “Arkham’s Sinister Psychiatrists and the Continuum with Caligari” in Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
23. Packer, Sharon: “Surrealism’s Influence on Arkham & Psychiatry’s Influence on Surrealism” in Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019. 24. Packer, Sharon: “Unethical Experiments in Arkham and Elsewhere” in Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
25. Packer, Sharon: “Why Arkham, Why Now?” in Packer, Sharon and Daniel Fredrick (eds.): Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
26. Packer, Sharon: “From Halfworld to Hellboy: Psychiatric Asylums and Mignola’s Comics Art” in The Mignolaverse: Hellboy and the Comics Art of Mike Mignola (ed. S.G. Hammond). Edswardville, Ill: Sequard, 2019, 82-100.
27. Packer, Sharon: “Ansky’s The Dybbuk, Freud’s Future of an Illusion, Watson’s “Little Albert,” and Supernatural Horror in Literature” in New Directions in Supernatural Horror (ed. Sean Moreland). New York: Palgrave-Macmillian, 2018, 61-75.
28. Packer, Sharon: “Jessica Jones (Superhero), Women and Alcohol Use Disorders” in Jessica
29. Jones, Scarred Superhero (ed. Tim Rayburn and Abigail Keyes). Jefferson, SC: McFarland, 2018.
30. Packer, Sharon: “Halfworld’s Loonies in Rocket Raccoon Comics: Serious or Satire” in Mental Illness in Popular Culture (ed. Sharon Packer). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2017, 265-276.
31. Packer, Sharon: “Arkham Asylum’s Criminally Insane Inmates and Psychotic Psychiatrists” in Mental Illness in Popular Culture (ed. Sharon Packer). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2017, 253-264.
32. Packer, Sharon: Revised Review of Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man (with an emphasis on logotherapy & Viktor Frankl) in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: Proceedings of the Viktor Frankl Institute, Volume I (ed. A. Batthyany). Springer International AG, Char, 2016, 411-415.
33. Packer, Sharon: “Stress, Religion & Superheroes” in Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotions & Behavior (ed. M Fink), Academic Press, 2016, 465-475.
34. Packer, Sharon: “Demon Drugs or Demon Children, Take Your Pick” in Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema’s Holy Terrors (eds. Markus P.J. Bohlmann and Sean Moreland, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015, 173-177.
35. Packer, Sharon: “Hannibal: His History and His Heirs” in The History of Evil in American Popular Culture: What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King and Vampire Reveal about America, Volume 2. (Eds. Sharon Packer and Jody Pennington): Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2014, 64-75.
36. Packer, Sharon: “Bad Psychiatrists in Batman: A Mirror into a Murderer’s Mind? in The History of Evil in American Popular Culture: What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King and Vampire Reveal about America, Volume 2. (Eds. Sharon Packer and Jody Pennington). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2014, 181-193.
37. Packer, Sharon: Spider-Man’s Symbiote and the Early AIDS Epidemic. History of Medicine, February 2014.
38. Packer, Sharon: “Stress & Religion” (updated and revised) in Encyclopedia of Stress, Second Edition (ed. M Fink), Academic Press, 2007.
39. Packer, Sharon: “Stress and Religion after 9/11” in Encyclopedia of Stress, Second Edition (ed. M Fink), Academic Press, 2007.
40. Packer, Sharon: “The Colorblind Cyberclass” in Race in the College Class (ed. B Tusmith & M Reddy), Rutgers U Press, 264-276, 2002.
41. Packer, Sharon: “Stress & Religion” in Encyclopedia of Stress (ed. M. Fink). Academic Press, Vol. III, 1998, 348-355.
42. Packer, Sharon: “Tribute to Harry Friedenwald, Historian of Medicine” in Jewish Book Annual (ed. Philip Miller), 1997.
ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
44. 2024 Packer, Sharon: Autism Spectrum Disorder: Two Sides of the Street, Psychiatric Times, November 8, 2024.
45. 2024 Packer, Sharon: Eating Professionals vs. Eating Disorders, Psychiatric Times, October 2, 2024. 2024. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/eating-professionals-vs-eating-disorders
46. 2024 Packer, Sharon: Beth Israel’s Nathan Perlman Place and its Place in History, Psychiatric Times, July 30, 2024. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/beth-israel-s-nathan-perlman-place-and-its-place-in-history
47. 2024 Packer, Sharon: Hostages and Heroics: Do Hostage Films Help? (Part II), Psychiatric Times, June 11, 2024. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/do-hostage-films-help-part-2-movies-and-psychiatry-exploring-hostages-heroics
48. 2024 Packer, Sharon: How I Happened upon Hostage Films: Do Hostage Films Help?” (Part I), Psychiatric Times, May 20, 2024. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/do-hostage-films-help-part-i-the-movies-of-our-lives-how-i-happened-upon-hostage-films
49. 2024 Packer, Sharon: Pushing the Panic Button Hid the Read Risks, Psychiatric Times, Jan 30, 2024.
50. 2023 Packer, Sharon: The Captagon Controversy and Why it Captivates, Psychiatric Times, Dec 26, 2023.
51. 2023 Packer, Sharon: Revising the Ethics of Landmark Psychological Experiments in “American Melancholy” (by Joyce Carol Oates): Poems, Psychiatric Times, Nov 8, 2023.
52. 2023 Packer, Sharon: Lessons from a Decades-Old Case of Zebra Diagnosis in an African American Veteran. Psychiatric Times, Jan 12, 2023.
53. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Making Sense of The Sixth Sense—So Many Years Later. Psychiatric Times, Dec 15, 2022.
54. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Celebrating Shabbosgiving. Psychiatric Times, November 18, 2022.
55. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Because the Sun Doesn’t Shine in Soho. Psychiatric Times, August 8, 2022. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/because-the-sun-doesn-t-shine-in-soho
56. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Psychiatrists Are Physicians First. Psychiatric Times. Psychiatric Times, November 14, 2022, Vol 39, Issue 11.
57. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Red, White, Blue, and Black: A Zebra Diagnosis in an African American Vet. Psychiatric Times, October 26, 2022. Red, White, Blue, and Black: A Zebra Diagnosis in an African American Vet (https://www.psychiatrictimes.com).
58. 2022 Packer, Sharon: A Matter of Life and Death: When Abortion Wars Should Not Be Fought. Psychiatric Times, September 2, 2022.
59. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Because the Sun Doesn’t Shine in Soho. Psychiatric Times, August 8, 2022. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/because-the-sun-doesn-t-shine-in-soho
60. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Should a Psychiatrist Say Kaddish for Her Patient? Psychiatric Times, July 11, 2022. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/should-a-psychiatrist-say-kaddish-for-her-patient-
61. 2022 Packer, Sharon: “My Life Today is Wonderful. I Believe that I am Needed.” (Zelensky). Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian War. Psychiatric Times, March 17, 2022.
62. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Weeds, Wildflowers & Wordsworth. Psychiatric Times, February 4, 2022.
63. 2022 Omar Reda, MD, H. Steven Moffic, MD, Rahn K. Bailey, MD, John R. Peteet, MD, Ahmed Hankir, MD, Rama Rao Gogineni, MD, Sharon Packer, MD, Andy McLean, MD, MPH, Mary V. Seeman, MD, Jack Gorman, MD, Saul Levine, MD, Sigalit Gal, PhD, Narpinder Kaur Malhi, MD, SPIRIT (Social Psychiatrists Interested in Recovery from International Trauma). We Refuse to Hate. Psychiatric Times, January 18, 2022.
64. 2021 Packer, Sharon: Lessons from my Garden about Patient Care. Psychiatric Times, February 2022. www.Psychiatrictimes.com September 25, 2021.
65. 2021 Omar Reda, MD, H. Steven Moffic, MD, Andy McLean, MD, MPH, John R. Peteet, MD, Mary V. Seeman, MD, Rama Rao Gogineni, MD, Rahn K. Bailey, MD, Narpinder Kaur Malhi, MD, Sharon Packer, MD, Jack Gorman, MD, Saul Levine, MD, Sigalit Gal, PhD, Ahmed Hankir, MD, Rania Awaad, MD, SPIRIT (Social Psychiatrists Interested in Recovery from International Trauma). An Interfaith Psychiatrist Prescription for Middle East Peace. Psychiatric Times, May 26, 2021.
66. 2021 Packer, Sharon: The Other Side of the COVID Crisis: The Silent, Socially Phobic Minority. Psychiatric Times, April 6, 2021.
67. 2021 Packer, Sharon: Demons, Dybbuks and Other Psychic Maladies. Psychiatric Times, February, 2021. www.Psychiatrictimes.com February 22, 2021.
68. 2021 Never Forget the Fine Print: From Fertility Rites to “Miracle Med.” Psychiatric Times 38:2, February 4, 2021. www.Psychiatrictimes.com February 4, 2021.
69. 2021 Packer, Sharon: Skip the Quarantini: Start with Quaran-Tea Time. Psychiatric Times, October 14, 2021.
70. 2020 Packer, Sharon: Of Personas and Perfection—and Physician Suicide. Psychiatric Times, December, 2020. www.Psychiatrictimes.com December 7, 2020.
71. 2020 Packer, Sharon: The Joy of Daffodils. Psychiatric Times, September 30, 2020 (podcast).
72. 2020 Packer, Sharon: Sleep Hygiene Tips to Prevent Insomnia. Psychiatric Times, June 2, 2020.
73. 2020 Packer, Sharon: Ditch the Quarantini: Healthy Options for Psychological Well-Being.
74. www.Psychiatric Times.com, April 23, 2020.
75. 2020 Packer, Sharon: Tele-Teatime During the Quarantine. Psychiatric Times, April 3, 2020.
76. 2020 Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Psychiatry and its Discontents by Andrew Scull. Metapsychology Vol. 24, No 25, 2020.
77. 2019 Packer, Sharon et al: APA Toolkit for Treating Jewish-Americans, Division of Diversity & Health Equity, American Psychiatric Association, 2019.
78. 2018 Edrei, Shawn and Sharon Packer: Lessons Learned from Mental Health Portrayals in Video Games, Psychiatric Times, February 26, 2018.
79. 2017 Packer, Sharon: Taming Trichotillomania while Weeding the Garden, Psychiatric Times, July 13, 2017.
80. 2017 Packer, Sharon: The Wandering Woman: A Pituitary Tumor, Psychiatric Times, May2017.PsychiatricTimes,May17,2017. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/psychiatric-emergencies/wanderingwoman-pituitary-tumor
81. 2016 Packer, Sharon: “A Penny for Your Thoughts”—or What Would Rod Sterling Say About E-prescribing? Psychiatric Times. October 24,
82. 2016. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/telepsychiatry/penny-your-thoughts-or-what-would-rodserling-say-about-e-prescribing
83. 2016 Packer, Sharon: Soul and Soma: Let’s Drink (Tea) to That! Psychiatric Times. Psychiatric Times. July 28, 2016. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cultural-psychiatry/soul-and-soma-lets-drink-tea
84. 2015 Packer, Sharon: Why Psychiatrists are Physicians First. The Mind-Body Divide: As Seen Through a Jaundiced Eye. Psychiatric Times. November 2, 2015. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/depression/mind-body-divide-seen-through-jaundicedeye. Accessed [11/02/2015].
85. 2015 Packer, Sharon. Why Psychiatrists Are Physicians First. Case Study: Mysterious Pain in Older Veteran. Psychiatric Times. May 15, 2015. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/geriatricpsychiatry/case-study-mysterious-pain-older-veteran#sthash.ApOYioxR.dpuf. Accessed [06/30/2015].
86. 2015 Packer, Sharon. Using psychodrama to teach CBT. Psychiatric Times. April 29,
87. 2015. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cognitive-behavioral-therapy/using-psychodrama-teachcbt. Accessed [04/29/2015].
88. 2014 Packer, Sharon: “Luke Cage and Race-Based Unethical Medical Experiments,” History of Medicine. December 2014.
89. 2014 Packer, Sharon: The Secret Psychiatric Origins of Rocket Raccoon. Psychiatric Times, October 2014 http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/film-and-book-reviews/secret-psychiatric-origins-rocketraccoon
90. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Rainy Day, Sunflower, at 9/11 Memorial (photojournalism/essay) Psychiatric Times, September 2014.
91. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Of Ham and Harm. Psychiatric Times, September 10, 2014 http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/psychopharmacology/ham-and-harm Packer, Sharon: Comics & Medicine: A Conference . . . or a Movement? Psychiatric
92. Times, August 2014. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cultural-psychiatry/comics-and-medicineconference%E2%80%A6or-movement. August 24, 2014 (online).
93. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Ocular Side Effects of Psychotropics: Special Considerations. Psychiatric Times, June 2014 http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/geriatric-psychiatry/ocular-side-effects-psychotropics-specialconsiderations. June 12, 2014 (online).
94. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Special Considerations for Treating Patients with Vision Loss. Psychiatric Times. May 2, 2014. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/apa2014/special-considerations-treating-patients-visionloss#sthash.MyROuilC.dpuf
95. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Treating Patients with Visual Loss: How Our Workshop Evolved. Psychiatric Times. May 02, 2014.
96. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/apa2014/treating-patients-visual-loss-how-our-workshopevolved#sthash.FZJMbleU.dpuf
97. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Daffodils as Antidepressants (What Wordsworth Knew). Psychiatric Times. April 2014. Online April 16, 2014. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/depression/daffodilsantidepresssants-what-wordsworth-knew#sthash.oECcWQNV.dpuf
98. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Altered Mental State: The Clue in the Blue Bottle. Psychiatric Times. March 2014. Online February 24, 2014. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/neuropsychiatry/alteredmental-state-clue-blue-bottle
99. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Why Psychiatrists are Physicians First: Spotting Medical Mimics: More than Meets the Eye. Psychiatric Times. January 2014.
100. 2013 Packer, Sharon: More Than Meets the Eye: Spotting Medical Mimics. Psychiatric Times. Online December 2, 2013. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blogs/couch-crisis/more-meets-eyespotting-medical-mimics
101. 2013 Packer, Sharon: Why Psychiatrists Are Physicians First: Country Calm Before the Storm. Psychiatric Times. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blogs/couch-crisis/whypsychiatrists-are-physicians-first-country-calm-storm#sthash.VWjJ2nMC.dpuf
102. 2013 Packer, Sharon: 5 Top Events in Psychiatry 2013. Psychiatric Times. December 2013.
103. 2013 Packer, Sharon: How Clean Underwear Saved a Life. Psychiatric Times. September 05, 2013. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/schizophrenia/how-clean-underwear-savedlife#sthash.HRlBzqFr.dpuf
104. 2013 Packer, Sharon: Why Psychiatrists Are Physicians First. Psychiatric Times. June 20, 2013. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blogs/couch-crisis/why-psychiatrists-are-physiciansfirst#sthash.ohy1EC6r.dpuf
105. Packer, Sharon: Iron Man 3: Reconciling Psychiatry’s Warring Camps. Psychiatric Times, July 25, 2013. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/neuropsychiatry/iron-man-iii-reconcilingpsychiatrys-warring-camps
106. 2013 Packer, Sharon: Raphael Osheroff, MD: A Belated Obituary. Psychiatric Times, June 28, 2013. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blogs/couch-crisis/belated-obituary-raphael-j-osheroff-md.
107. 2013 Packer, Sharon: Why Psychiatrists are Physicians First. Psychiatric Times, June 20,
108. 2013. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blogs/couch-crisis/why-psychiatrists-are-physicians-first
109. 2013 Packer, Sharon and Michael Ascher: Therapy Helps Visually Impaired Patients with Depression, Clinical Psychiatry News, June 11, 2013. http://www.clinicalpsychiatrynews.com/views/commentaries/single-article/therapy-helpsvisually-impaired-patient-with-
110. 2013 Packer, Sharon and Michael Ascher: Therapy helps visually impaired patient with depression. Clinical Psychiatry News, Tue, 11 Jun 2013. http://www.clinicalpsychiatrynews.com/.
111. 2013 Packer, Sharon and Michael Ascher: Using CBT to decipher dreams. Therapy helps visually impaired patient with depression. Clinical Psychiatry News, Thu, 12 Sep 2013. http://www.clinicalpsychiatrynews.com/in
112. 2012 Packer, Sharon: “Drugs and the Summer of Love: A Summer Fling, not a Lasting Romance” in Pop Culture Universe. Eternal Questions Series (ABC-Clio, Fall, 2012).
113. 2012 Packer, Sharon: “Drugs and the Summer of Love: A Summer Fling, not a Lasting Romance” in Pop Culture Universe, High School Edition. ABC-Clio’s Eternal Questions Series, Fall, 2012.
114. 2012 Packer, Sharon: “6 Recommendations for Residents.” Psychiatric Times, October 2012.
115. 2011 “Thor: From Myth to Marvel Comics to Movies to Medical Commentary.” HCPLive. 8/26/11. http://www.hcplive.com/pop-medicine/Thor-From-Myth-to-Marvel-Comics-to-Movies to-Medical-Commentary
116. 2011 “Recalling Total Recall.” http://www.hcplive.com/publications/mdng-
117. Neurology/2011/february_2011/psych_in_film_recalling_total_recall
118. 2011 “Recalling Total Recall” MDng Magazine, Psychiatry/Neurology Edition. February 2011.
119. 2007 Packer, Sharon and Stephen Berman: Linezolid in the Induction of Serotonin Syndrome [Letter to Editor], American Journal of Psychiatry, 164: 346-347, 2007.
120. 2000 Packer, Sharon: “A Lilly for Libby” (Illuminated Obituary about Libby Zion’s death). Southern Medical J, 2000.
121. 2000 Packer, Sharon: “Ancient Myth and Modern Pharmacology,” Hellenic Medical Society Bulletin, Spring, 2000.
122. 1989 Packer, Sharon: Ergotism and Lethal Catatonia, American Journal of Psychiatry [Letter to Editor], 146: 10, 1360, 1989.
123. 1998 Packer, Sharon: Jewish Mystical Movements and the European Ergot Epidemics, Israel Journal of Psychiatry, 35, 3, 1998.
124. 1998 Packer, Sharon and Warren Dotz: Epidemic Ergotism, St. Anthony's Fire, and Jewish Mysticism, Dermatopathology Practical Concepts 4:259-67; 1998.
125. 1997 Packer, Sharon: Commentary on Kennedy's Geriatrics and Religious Observance [Letter to the Editor]: Gerontology, Spring 1997.
126.
45. 2024 Packer, Sharon: Eating Professionals vs. Eating Disorders, Psychiatric Times, October 2, 2024. 2024. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/eating-professionals-vs-eating-disorders
46. 2024 Packer, Sharon: Beth Israel’s Nathan Perlman Place and its Place in History, Psychiatric Times, July 30, 2024. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/beth-israel-s-nathan-perlman-place-and-its-place-in-history
47. 2024 Packer, Sharon: Hostages and Heroics: Do Hostage Films Help? (Part II), Psychiatric Times, June 11, 2024. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/do-hostage-films-help-part-2-movies-and-psychiatry-exploring-hostages-heroics
48. 2024 Packer, Sharon: How I Happened upon Hostage Films: Do Hostage Films Help?” (Part I), Psychiatric Times, May 20, 2024. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/do-hostage-films-help-part-i-the-movies-of-our-lives-how-i-happened-upon-hostage-films
49. 2024 Packer, Sharon: Pushing the Panic Button Hid the Read Risks, Psychiatric Times, Jan 30, 2024.
50. 2023 Packer, Sharon: The Captagon Controversy and Why it Captivates, Psychiatric Times, Dec 26, 2023.
51. 2023 Packer, Sharon: Revising the Ethics of Landmark Psychological Experiments in “American Melancholy” (by Joyce Carol Oates): Poems, Psychiatric Times, Nov 8, 2023.
52. 2023 Packer, Sharon: Lessons from a Decades-Old Case of Zebra Diagnosis in an African American Veteran. Psychiatric Times, Jan 12, 2023.
53. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Making Sense of The Sixth Sense—So Many Years Later. Psychiatric Times, Dec 15, 2022.
54. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Celebrating Shabbosgiving. Psychiatric Times, November 18, 2022.
55. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Because the Sun Doesn’t Shine in Soho. Psychiatric Times, August 8, 2022. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/because-the-sun-doesn-t-shine-in-soho
56. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Psychiatrists Are Physicians First. Psychiatric Times. Psychiatric Times, November 14, 2022, Vol 39, Issue 11.
57. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Red, White, Blue, and Black: A Zebra Diagnosis in an African American Vet. Psychiatric Times, October 26, 2022. Red, White, Blue, and Black: A Zebra Diagnosis in an African American Vet (https://www.psychiatrictimes.com).
58. 2022 Packer, Sharon: A Matter of Life and Death: When Abortion Wars Should Not Be Fought. Psychiatric Times, September 2, 2022.
59. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Because the Sun Doesn’t Shine in Soho. Psychiatric Times, August 8, 2022. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/because-the-sun-doesn-t-shine-in-soho
60. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Should a Psychiatrist Say Kaddish for Her Patient? Psychiatric Times, July 11, 2022. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/should-a-psychiatrist-say-kaddish-for-her-patient-
61. 2022 Packer, Sharon: “My Life Today is Wonderful. I Believe that I am Needed.” (Zelensky). Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian War. Psychiatric Times, March 17, 2022.
62. 2022 Packer, Sharon: Weeds, Wildflowers & Wordsworth. Psychiatric Times, February 4, 2022.
63. 2022 Omar Reda, MD, H. Steven Moffic, MD, Rahn K. Bailey, MD, John R. Peteet, MD, Ahmed Hankir, MD, Rama Rao Gogineni, MD, Sharon Packer, MD, Andy McLean, MD, MPH, Mary V. Seeman, MD, Jack Gorman, MD, Saul Levine, MD, Sigalit Gal, PhD, Narpinder Kaur Malhi, MD, SPIRIT (Social Psychiatrists Interested in Recovery from International Trauma). We Refuse to Hate. Psychiatric Times, January 18, 2022.
64. 2021 Packer, Sharon: Lessons from my Garden about Patient Care. Psychiatric Times, February 2022. www.Psychiatrictimes.com September 25, 2021.
65. 2021 Omar Reda, MD, H. Steven Moffic, MD, Andy McLean, MD, MPH, John R. Peteet, MD, Mary V. Seeman, MD, Rama Rao Gogineni, MD, Rahn K. Bailey, MD, Narpinder Kaur Malhi, MD, Sharon Packer, MD, Jack Gorman, MD, Saul Levine, MD, Sigalit Gal, PhD, Ahmed Hankir, MD, Rania Awaad, MD, SPIRIT (Social Psychiatrists Interested in Recovery from International Trauma). An Interfaith Psychiatrist Prescription for Middle East Peace. Psychiatric Times, May 26, 2021.
66. 2021 Packer, Sharon: The Other Side of the COVID Crisis: The Silent, Socially Phobic Minority. Psychiatric Times, April 6, 2021.
67. 2021 Packer, Sharon: Demons, Dybbuks and Other Psychic Maladies. Psychiatric Times, February, 2021. www.Psychiatrictimes.com February 22, 2021.
68. 2021 Never Forget the Fine Print: From Fertility Rites to “Miracle Med.” Psychiatric Times 38:2, February 4, 2021. www.Psychiatrictimes.com February 4, 2021.
69. 2021 Packer, Sharon: Skip the Quarantini: Start with Quaran-Tea Time. Psychiatric Times, October 14, 2021.
70. 2020 Packer, Sharon: Of Personas and Perfection—and Physician Suicide. Psychiatric Times, December, 2020. www.Psychiatrictimes.com December 7, 2020.
71. 2020 Packer, Sharon: The Joy of Daffodils. Psychiatric Times, September 30, 2020 (podcast).
72. 2020 Packer, Sharon: Sleep Hygiene Tips to Prevent Insomnia. Psychiatric Times, June 2, 2020.
73. 2020 Packer, Sharon: Ditch the Quarantini: Healthy Options for Psychological Well-Being.
74. www.Psychiatric Times.com, April 23, 2020.
75. 2020 Packer, Sharon: Tele-Teatime During the Quarantine. Psychiatric Times, April 3, 2020.
76. 2020 Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Psychiatry and its Discontents by Andrew Scull. Metapsychology Vol. 24, No 25, 2020.
77. 2019 Packer, Sharon et al: APA Toolkit for Treating Jewish-Americans, Division of Diversity & Health Equity, American Psychiatric Association, 2019.
78. 2018 Edrei, Shawn and Sharon Packer: Lessons Learned from Mental Health Portrayals in Video Games, Psychiatric Times, February 26, 2018.
79. 2017 Packer, Sharon: Taming Trichotillomania while Weeding the Garden, Psychiatric Times, July 13, 2017.
80. 2017 Packer, Sharon: The Wandering Woman: A Pituitary Tumor, Psychiatric Times, May2017.PsychiatricTimes,May17,2017. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/psychiatric-emergencies/wanderingwoman-pituitary-tumor
81. 2016 Packer, Sharon: “A Penny for Your Thoughts”—or What Would Rod Sterling Say About E-prescribing? Psychiatric Times. October 24,
82. 2016. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/telepsychiatry/penny-your-thoughts-or-what-would-rodserling-say-about-e-prescribing
83. 2016 Packer, Sharon: Soul and Soma: Let’s Drink (Tea) to That! Psychiatric Times. Psychiatric Times. July 28, 2016. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cultural-psychiatry/soul-and-soma-lets-drink-tea
84. 2015 Packer, Sharon: Why Psychiatrists are Physicians First. The Mind-Body Divide: As Seen Through a Jaundiced Eye. Psychiatric Times. November 2, 2015. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/depression/mind-body-divide-seen-through-jaundicedeye. Accessed [11/02/2015].
85. 2015 Packer, Sharon. Why Psychiatrists Are Physicians First. Case Study: Mysterious Pain in Older Veteran. Psychiatric Times. May 15, 2015. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/geriatricpsychiatry/case-study-mysterious-pain-older-veteran#sthash.ApOYioxR.dpuf. Accessed [06/30/2015].
86. 2015 Packer, Sharon. Using psychodrama to teach CBT. Psychiatric Times. April 29,
87. 2015. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cognitive-behavioral-therapy/using-psychodrama-teachcbt. Accessed [04/29/2015].
88. 2014 Packer, Sharon: “Luke Cage and Race-Based Unethical Medical Experiments,” History of Medicine. December 2014.
89. 2014 Packer, Sharon: The Secret Psychiatric Origins of Rocket Raccoon. Psychiatric Times, October 2014 http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/film-and-book-reviews/secret-psychiatric-origins-rocketraccoon
90. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Rainy Day, Sunflower, at 9/11 Memorial (photojournalism/essay) Psychiatric Times, September 2014.
91. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Of Ham and Harm. Psychiatric Times, September 10, 2014 http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/psychopharmacology/ham-and-harm Packer, Sharon: Comics & Medicine: A Conference . . . or a Movement? Psychiatric
92. Times, August 2014. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cultural-psychiatry/comics-and-medicineconference%E2%80%A6or-movement. August 24, 2014 (online).
93. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Ocular Side Effects of Psychotropics: Special Considerations. Psychiatric Times, June 2014 http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/geriatric-psychiatry/ocular-side-effects-psychotropics-specialconsiderations. June 12, 2014 (online).
94. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Special Considerations for Treating Patients with Vision Loss. Psychiatric Times. May 2, 2014. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/apa2014/special-considerations-treating-patients-visionloss#sthash.MyROuilC.dpuf
95. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Treating Patients with Visual Loss: How Our Workshop Evolved. Psychiatric Times. May 02, 2014.
96. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/apa2014/treating-patients-visual-loss-how-our-workshopevolved#sthash.FZJMbleU.dpuf
97. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Daffodils as Antidepressants (What Wordsworth Knew). Psychiatric Times. April 2014. Online April 16, 2014. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/depression/daffodilsantidepresssants-what-wordsworth-knew#sthash.oECcWQNV.dpuf
98. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Altered Mental State: The Clue in the Blue Bottle. Psychiatric Times. March 2014. Online February 24, 2014. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/neuropsychiatry/alteredmental-state-clue-blue-bottle
99. 2014 Packer, Sharon: Why Psychiatrists are Physicians First: Spotting Medical Mimics: More than Meets the Eye. Psychiatric Times. January 2014.
100. 2013 Packer, Sharon: More Than Meets the Eye: Spotting Medical Mimics. Psychiatric Times. Online December 2, 2013. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blogs/couch-crisis/more-meets-eyespotting-medical-mimics
101. 2013 Packer, Sharon: Why Psychiatrists Are Physicians First: Country Calm Before the Storm. Psychiatric Times. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blogs/couch-crisis/whypsychiatrists-are-physicians-first-country-calm-storm#sthash.VWjJ2nMC.dpuf
102. 2013 Packer, Sharon: 5 Top Events in Psychiatry 2013. Psychiatric Times. December 2013.
103. 2013 Packer, Sharon: How Clean Underwear Saved a Life. Psychiatric Times. September 05, 2013. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/schizophrenia/how-clean-underwear-savedlife#sthash.HRlBzqFr.dpuf
104. 2013 Packer, Sharon: Why Psychiatrists Are Physicians First. Psychiatric Times. June 20, 2013. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blogs/couch-crisis/why-psychiatrists-are-physiciansfirst#sthash.ohy1EC6r.dpuf
105. Packer, Sharon: Iron Man 3: Reconciling Psychiatry’s Warring Camps. Psychiatric Times, July 25, 2013. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/neuropsychiatry/iron-man-iii-reconcilingpsychiatrys-warring-camps
106. 2013 Packer, Sharon: Raphael Osheroff, MD: A Belated Obituary. Psychiatric Times, June 28, 2013. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blogs/couch-crisis/belated-obituary-raphael-j-osheroff-md.
107. 2013 Packer, Sharon: Why Psychiatrists are Physicians First. Psychiatric Times, June 20,
108. 2013. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blogs/couch-crisis/why-psychiatrists-are-physicians-first
109. 2013 Packer, Sharon and Michael Ascher: Therapy Helps Visually Impaired Patients with Depression, Clinical Psychiatry News, June 11, 2013. http://www.clinicalpsychiatrynews.com/views/commentaries/single-article/therapy-helpsvisually-impaired-patient-with-
110. 2013 Packer, Sharon and Michael Ascher: Therapy helps visually impaired patient with depression. Clinical Psychiatry News, Tue, 11 Jun 2013. http://www.clinicalpsychiatrynews.com/.
111. 2013 Packer, Sharon and Michael Ascher: Using CBT to decipher dreams. Therapy helps visually impaired patient with depression. Clinical Psychiatry News, Thu, 12 Sep 2013. http://www.clinicalpsychiatrynews.com/in
112. 2012 Packer, Sharon: “Drugs and the Summer of Love: A Summer Fling, not a Lasting Romance” in Pop Culture Universe. Eternal Questions Series (ABC-Clio, Fall, 2012).
113. 2012 Packer, Sharon: “Drugs and the Summer of Love: A Summer Fling, not a Lasting Romance” in Pop Culture Universe, High School Edition. ABC-Clio’s Eternal Questions Series, Fall, 2012.
114. 2012 Packer, Sharon: “6 Recommendations for Residents.” Psychiatric Times, October 2012.
115. 2011 “Thor: From Myth to Marvel Comics to Movies to Medical Commentary.” HCPLive. 8/26/11. http://www.hcplive.com/pop-medicine/Thor-From-Myth-to-Marvel-Comics-to-Movies to-Medical-Commentary
116. 2011 “Recalling Total Recall.” http://www.hcplive.com/publications/mdng-
117. Neurology/2011/february_2011/psych_in_film_recalling_total_recall
118. 2011 “Recalling Total Recall” MDng Magazine, Psychiatry/Neurology Edition. February 2011.
119. 2007 Packer, Sharon and Stephen Berman: Linezolid in the Induction of Serotonin Syndrome [Letter to Editor], American Journal of Psychiatry, 164: 346-347, 2007.
120. 2000 Packer, Sharon: “A Lilly for Libby” (Illuminated Obituary about Libby Zion’s death). Southern Medical J, 2000.
121. 2000 Packer, Sharon: “Ancient Myth and Modern Pharmacology,” Hellenic Medical Society Bulletin, Spring, 2000.
122. 1989 Packer, Sharon: Ergotism and Lethal Catatonia, American Journal of Psychiatry [Letter to Editor], 146: 10, 1360, 1989.
123. 1998 Packer, Sharon: Jewish Mystical Movements and the European Ergot Epidemics, Israel Journal of Psychiatry, 35, 3, 1998.
124. 1998 Packer, Sharon and Warren Dotz: Epidemic Ergotism, St. Anthony's Fire, and Jewish Mysticism, Dermatopathology Practical Concepts 4:259-67; 1998.
125. 1997 Packer, Sharon: Commentary on Kennedy's Geriatrics and Religious Observance [Letter to the Editor]: Gerontology, Spring 1997.
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PRESENTATIONS
127. 2023 “Media Portrayals of Mental Illness & Mental Health Practitioners” in “Changing the Narrative on Mental Health in Television and Film,” for LIU (Long Island University) Symposium, 11/5/23.
128. 2021 “Anti-Semitism and its Relevance to Psychiatry,” APA Caucus of Religion & Spirituality, Quarterly Meeting, 1/10/24. Zoom.
129. 2021 “Ritual & Religion and its Relevance to Psychiatry,” APA Caucus of Religion & Spirituality, Quarterly Meeting, 1/10/22. Zoom.
130. 2020 “Sinophobia & Tibetophilia : Recurrent Racist Memes in Science Fiction Cinema & Comics. Fifth Annual City Tech Symposium in Science Fiction, 11/19/2020.
131. 2020 “Managing Stress & Burnout: Lessons Learned from Viktor Frankl,” American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (presented by pcssnow.org) 5/18/2020.
132. 2019 “Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema and Comics, before and after Arkham Asylum,” presenter “The Profound and Long-Term Impact of Arkham Asylum on Psychiatry,” APA Annual Meeting, 5/20/2019.
133. 2019 “Fava Beans, Dopamine & Sexual Dysfunction: Facts, Fallacies & Fantasies.” Presenter, APA Annual Meeting, 5/20/2019.
134. 2019 “The Profound and Long-Term Impact of Arkham Asylum on Psychiatry,” Chair & Presenter, APA Annual Meeting, 5/21/2019.
135. 2019 “Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema and Comics, before and after Arkham Asylum,” presenter “The Profound and Long-Term Impact of Arkham Asylum on Psychiatry,” APA Annual Meeting, 5/20/2019.
136. 2019 “Simian Cinema, Darwinian Debates, and Early Analog SF Stories,” Fourth Annual City Tech Symposium in Science Fiction, 12/12/2019.
137. 2018 “Jessica Jones (Superhero), Women and Alcohol Use Disorders,” Third Annual City Tech Symposium in Science Fiction, 11/15/18.
138. 2018 “Fava Beans, Dopamine & Depression: Facts, Fallacies & Fantasies,” New York County Psychiatric Society, Complementary & Integrative Medicine Committee, 6/20/18.
139. 2018 “Studying Psychiatry via Superhero Stories, Beginning with Batman,” Grand Rounds, Brookdale Hospital, Brooklyn, Department of Psychiatry, 1/8/19.
140. 2017 “Luke Cage and Race-Based Unethical Medical Experiments,” Second Annual City Tech Symposium in Science Fiction, 12/6/17.
141. 2015 “Tracing Psychiatric Paradigm Shifts via Science Fiction Film,” Grand Rounds, Brookdale Hospital (New York Medical College), 12/18/15.
142. 2015 “A Century of Sinister Cinema Psychiatrists,” Grand Rounds, Metropolitan Hospital (New York Medical College), 11/20/15.
143. 2015 Rocket Raccoon’s (and JAMA’s) Suggestions for Psychiatric Asylums, Comics & Medicine Conference, University of California, Riverside, 7/19/15.
144. 2015 Author’s Night: Neuroscience in Science Fiction Film. New York Academy of Medicine, History of Medicine Section, History of Medicine Night, 4/22/15.
145. 2015 “Epidemic Ergotism, Medieval Mysticism, and Future Trends in Palliative Care,” The Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health, New York Academy of Medicine, History of Medicine Section, History of Medicine Night, Fourth Annual, 2/6/15.
146. 2015 Author’s Night: Neuroscience in Science Fiction Film. New York Academy of Medicine, History of Medicine Section, History of Medicine Night, 4/22/15.
147. 2015 Neuroscience in Science Fiction Films. Grand Rounds, Montefiore Hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2/26/15.
148. 2015 “Epidemic Ergotism, Medieval Mysticism, and Future Trends in Palliative Care,” The Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health, New York Academy of Medicine, History of Medicine Section, History of Medicine Night, Fourth Annual, 2/6/15
149. 2015 Author’s Night: Neuroscience in Science Fiction Film. New York Academy of Medicine, History of Medicine Section, 4/22/15.
150. 2015 Rocket Raccoon’s (and JAMA’s) Suggestions for Psychiatric Asylums, Comics & Medicine Conference, University of California, Riverside, 7/19/15.
151. 2014 “Luke Cage and Race-Based Unethical Medical Experiments,” Graphic Medicine Conference, sponsored by Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 6/26/14.
152. 2014 “Treating Patients with Visual Loss: Finding Light in the Darkness,” APA Annual Meeting, 5/5/ 2014 (Sharon Packer, MD, Co-Chair and Presenter).
153. 2013 Cinema’s Sinister Psychiatrists & the History of Psychiatry (Selections for Book Reading). New York Academy of Medicine, 1/9/13.
154. 2012 From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal: Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema, 4th Update. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 10/7/12, New York, Workshop, (Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter).
155. 2012 Post-Traumatic Stress, Post-Traumatic Strength, Superhero Style (with special emphasis on servicemen, servicewomen, and veterans). Grand Rounds, Brooklyn VA Hospital, 5/27/12.
156. 2012 “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: A Commentary on WWI Shell-Shock and ElectroShock?” The Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health, New York Academy of Medicine, History of Medicine Section, 2/22/12.
157. 2011 Post-Traumatic Stress, Post-Traumatic Strength, Superhero Style. Grand Rounds, Beth Israel Medical Center, Petrie Campus, 12/28/11.
158. 2011 How Spider-Man’s Symbiote Reflects the Early AIDS Epidemic. History of Medicine Symposium, New York Academy of Medicine, 1/12/11.
Post-Traumatic Stress, Post-Traumatic Strength, Superhero Style. Grand Rounds, Beth Israel Medical Center, Petrie Campus, 12/28/11. “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: A Commentary on WWI Shell-Shock and ElectroShock?” The Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health, New York Academy of Medicine, History of Medicine Section, 2/22/2012. 161. 2012 Post-Traumatic Stress, Post-Traumatic Strength, Superhero Style (with special emphasis on servicemen, servicewomen, and veterans). Grand Rounds, Brooklyn VA Hospital, 5/27/12.
From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal: Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema, 4th Update. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 10/7/2012, New York, Workshop, (Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter). 163. 2010 Superheroes & Superegos: Relevance to History of Medicine. New York Academy of Medicine, Author Series, February 18, 2010.
164. 2010 Update: From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal: Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 2010, Boston, Workshop, (Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter).
165. 2010 Batman: Caped Crusader, Psychiatric Controversies, and Controversial
166. Psychiatrists. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 2010, Boston Workshop, (Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter, Richard Gersh, MD, discussant).
167. 2010 Turning Post-Traumatic Stress into Post-Traumatic Strength, Superhero Style. Grand Rounds, Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 11/18/10.
168. 2010 Update: From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal: Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 2010, Boston, Workshop, (Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter).
169. 2009 Update: From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal: Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 2009, New York, Workshop, (Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter).
170. 2008 From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal: Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 2008, Chicago, Workshop,
171. (Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter).
From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal: Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 2008, Chicago, Workshop,(Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter).
Superheroes & Superegos: Relevance to History of Medicine. New York Academy of Medicine, Author Series, February 18, 2010. 174. 2007 Pathologic Computer Use: Patients Who Immerse into Virtual Reality or Games (section on Film and Game), Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 2007, New Orleans, (Jerald Block, MD, Sharon Packer, MD).
175. 2007 Beyond PowerPoint: Using Technology for Teaching Mental Health, American Psychiatric Assn Annual Meeting 2007, San Diego, (co-chairs: Sharon Packer, MD, Seth Powsner, MD. Participants: Thomas J. Kim, MD, Willadene Walker-Schmucker, RNP).
176. 2001 Racial Revelation in the “Colorblind” Cyberclass (2001-2), grant supported by DIAL program, New School for Social Research and published in Race in the College Class (Rutgers UP).
177. 2000 “Sleep & Dream: Greek Myth to Modern Pharmacology,” Greek Alliance for the Mentally Ill, GAMI, 2000.
178. 1998 Gender Issues in On-line Learning,” 3rd Annual Distance Education Conference, New School for Social Research, 1998.
179. 1997 Medical-Historical Comments on Epstein's "The Use of the Speculum in 1880's Russia," Ma'ayan, New York, 1997.
180. 1996 Neuroscience Grand Rounds, McLane Hospital, Harvard, 1996
Topic: “Jewish Mysticism and the Ergot Epidemics.”
181. 1996 Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, 1996 Topic: “Jewish Mysticism and the Ergot Epidemics.”
182. 1990 "Drugs, Disease, & Deuteronomy," International Psychohistorical Society, 1990.
183. 1990 "Laws of Leviticus and the Laws of Leaven," International Psychohistorical Society, 1990.
184. 1989 “Medieval Mysticism and Epidemic Ergotism”, International Psychohistorical Association, 1989.
185. 1988 “Depression, Anxiety, & Arthritis”, Arthritis Foundation Conference, 1988.
186. 1997 “Work-related Head Trauma and Impulse Dyscontrol among NYC Correctional Officers”, Correctional Medical Association, Chicago, 1987.
187. 1987 “Behavior Changes in Correction Officers,” Women in Criminal Justice Conference, 1987.
188.
128. 2021 “Anti-Semitism and its Relevance to Psychiatry,” APA Caucus of Religion & Spirituality, Quarterly Meeting, 1/10/24. Zoom.
129. 2021 “Ritual & Religion and its Relevance to Psychiatry,” APA Caucus of Religion & Spirituality, Quarterly Meeting, 1/10/22. Zoom.
130. 2020 “Sinophobia & Tibetophilia : Recurrent Racist Memes in Science Fiction Cinema & Comics. Fifth Annual City Tech Symposium in Science Fiction, 11/19/2020.
131. 2020 “Managing Stress & Burnout: Lessons Learned from Viktor Frankl,” American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (presented by pcssnow.org) 5/18/2020.
132. 2019 “Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema and Comics, before and after Arkham Asylum,” presenter “The Profound and Long-Term Impact of Arkham Asylum on Psychiatry,” APA Annual Meeting, 5/20/2019.
133. 2019 “Fava Beans, Dopamine & Sexual Dysfunction: Facts, Fallacies & Fantasies.” Presenter, APA Annual Meeting, 5/20/2019.
134. 2019 “The Profound and Long-Term Impact of Arkham Asylum on Psychiatry,” Chair & Presenter, APA Annual Meeting, 5/21/2019.
135. 2019 “Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema and Comics, before and after Arkham Asylum,” presenter “The Profound and Long-Term Impact of Arkham Asylum on Psychiatry,” APA Annual Meeting, 5/20/2019.
136. 2019 “Simian Cinema, Darwinian Debates, and Early Analog SF Stories,” Fourth Annual City Tech Symposium in Science Fiction, 12/12/2019.
137. 2018 “Jessica Jones (Superhero), Women and Alcohol Use Disorders,” Third Annual City Tech Symposium in Science Fiction, 11/15/18.
138. 2018 “Fava Beans, Dopamine & Depression: Facts, Fallacies & Fantasies,” New York County Psychiatric Society, Complementary & Integrative Medicine Committee, 6/20/18.
139. 2018 “Studying Psychiatry via Superhero Stories, Beginning with Batman,” Grand Rounds, Brookdale Hospital, Brooklyn, Department of Psychiatry, 1/8/19.
140. 2017 “Luke Cage and Race-Based Unethical Medical Experiments,” Second Annual City Tech Symposium in Science Fiction, 12/6/17.
141. 2015 “Tracing Psychiatric Paradigm Shifts via Science Fiction Film,” Grand Rounds, Brookdale Hospital (New York Medical College), 12/18/15.
142. 2015 “A Century of Sinister Cinema Psychiatrists,” Grand Rounds, Metropolitan Hospital (New York Medical College), 11/20/15.
143. 2015 Rocket Raccoon’s (and JAMA’s) Suggestions for Psychiatric Asylums, Comics & Medicine Conference, University of California, Riverside, 7/19/15.
144. 2015 Author’s Night: Neuroscience in Science Fiction Film. New York Academy of Medicine, History of Medicine Section, History of Medicine Night, 4/22/15.
145. 2015 “Epidemic Ergotism, Medieval Mysticism, and Future Trends in Palliative Care,” The Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health, New York Academy of Medicine, History of Medicine Section, History of Medicine Night, Fourth Annual, 2/6/15.
146. 2015 Author’s Night: Neuroscience in Science Fiction Film. New York Academy of Medicine, History of Medicine Section, History of Medicine Night, 4/22/15.
147. 2015 Neuroscience in Science Fiction Films. Grand Rounds, Montefiore Hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2/26/15.
148. 2015 “Epidemic Ergotism, Medieval Mysticism, and Future Trends in Palliative Care,” The Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health, New York Academy of Medicine, History of Medicine Section, History of Medicine Night, Fourth Annual, 2/6/15
149. 2015 Author’s Night: Neuroscience in Science Fiction Film. New York Academy of Medicine, History of Medicine Section, 4/22/15.
150. 2015 Rocket Raccoon’s (and JAMA’s) Suggestions for Psychiatric Asylums, Comics & Medicine Conference, University of California, Riverside, 7/19/15.
151. 2014 “Luke Cage and Race-Based Unethical Medical Experiments,” Graphic Medicine Conference, sponsored by Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 6/26/14.
152. 2014 “Treating Patients with Visual Loss: Finding Light in the Darkness,” APA Annual Meeting, 5/5/ 2014 (Sharon Packer, MD, Co-Chair and Presenter).
153. 2013 Cinema’s Sinister Psychiatrists & the History of Psychiatry (Selections for Book Reading). New York Academy of Medicine, 1/9/13.
154. 2012 From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal: Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema, 4th Update. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 10/7/12, New York, Workshop, (Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter).
155. 2012 Post-Traumatic Stress, Post-Traumatic Strength, Superhero Style (with special emphasis on servicemen, servicewomen, and veterans). Grand Rounds, Brooklyn VA Hospital, 5/27/12.
156. 2012 “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: A Commentary on WWI Shell-Shock and ElectroShock?” The Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health, New York Academy of Medicine, History of Medicine Section, 2/22/12.
157. 2011 Post-Traumatic Stress, Post-Traumatic Strength, Superhero Style. Grand Rounds, Beth Israel Medical Center, Petrie Campus, 12/28/11.
158. 2011 How Spider-Man’s Symbiote Reflects the Early AIDS Epidemic. History of Medicine Symposium, New York Academy of Medicine, 1/12/11.
Post-Traumatic Stress, Post-Traumatic Strength, Superhero Style. Grand Rounds, Beth Israel Medical Center, Petrie Campus, 12/28/11. “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: A Commentary on WWI Shell-Shock and ElectroShock?” The Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health, New York Academy of Medicine, History of Medicine Section, 2/22/2012. 161. 2012 Post-Traumatic Stress, Post-Traumatic Strength, Superhero Style (with special emphasis on servicemen, servicewomen, and veterans). Grand Rounds, Brooklyn VA Hospital, 5/27/12.
From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal: Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema, 4th Update. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 10/7/2012, New York, Workshop, (Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter). 163. 2010 Superheroes & Superegos: Relevance to History of Medicine. New York Academy of Medicine, Author Series, February 18, 2010.
164. 2010 Update: From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal: Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 2010, Boston, Workshop, (Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter).
165. 2010 Batman: Caped Crusader, Psychiatric Controversies, and Controversial
166. Psychiatrists. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 2010, Boston Workshop, (Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter, Richard Gersh, MD, discussant).
167. 2010 Turning Post-Traumatic Stress into Post-Traumatic Strength, Superhero Style. Grand Rounds, Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 11/18/10.
168. 2010 Update: From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal: Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 2010, Boston, Workshop, (Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter).
169. 2009 Update: From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal: Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 2009, New York, Workshop, (Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter).
170. 2008 From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal: Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 2008, Chicago, Workshop,
171. (Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter).
From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal: Sinister Psychiatrists in Cinema. Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 2008, Chicago, Workshop,(Sharon Packer, MD, Chair and Presenter).
Superheroes & Superegos: Relevance to History of Medicine. New York Academy of Medicine, Author Series, February 18, 2010. 174. 2007 Pathologic Computer Use: Patients Who Immerse into Virtual Reality or Games (section on Film and Game), Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting 2007, New Orleans, (Jerald Block, MD, Sharon Packer, MD).
175. 2007 Beyond PowerPoint: Using Technology for Teaching Mental Health, American Psychiatric Assn Annual Meeting 2007, San Diego, (co-chairs: Sharon Packer, MD, Seth Powsner, MD. Participants: Thomas J. Kim, MD, Willadene Walker-Schmucker, RNP).
176. 2001 Racial Revelation in the “Colorblind” Cyberclass (2001-2), grant supported by DIAL program, New School for Social Research and published in Race in the College Class (Rutgers UP).
177. 2000 “Sleep & Dream: Greek Myth to Modern Pharmacology,” Greek Alliance for the Mentally Ill, GAMI, 2000.
178. 1998 Gender Issues in On-line Learning,” 3rd Annual Distance Education Conference, New School for Social Research, 1998.
179. 1997 Medical-Historical Comments on Epstein's "The Use of the Speculum in 1880's Russia," Ma'ayan, New York, 1997.
180. 1996 Neuroscience Grand Rounds, McLane Hospital, Harvard, 1996
Topic: “Jewish Mysticism and the Ergot Epidemics.”
181. 1996 Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, 1996 Topic: “Jewish Mysticism and the Ergot Epidemics.”
182. 1990 "Drugs, Disease, & Deuteronomy," International Psychohistorical Society, 1990.
183. 1990 "Laws of Leviticus and the Laws of Leaven," International Psychohistorical Society, 1990.
184. 1989 “Medieval Mysticism and Epidemic Ergotism”, International Psychohistorical Association, 1989.
185. 1988 “Depression, Anxiety, & Arthritis”, Arthritis Foundation Conference, 1988.
186. 1997 “Work-related Head Trauma and Impulse Dyscontrol among NYC Correctional Officers”, Correctional Medical Association, Chicago, 1987.
187. 1987 “Behavior Changes in Correction Officers,” Women in Criminal Justice Conference, 1987.
188.
BOOK & FILM REVIEWS
189. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre. By Olga Gershenson. Journal of Popular Culture, December 2024.
190. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Packer, Sharon: “Supervising Individual Psychotherapy: The Guide to ‘Good Enough’, by Katherine G. Kennedy, Randon S. Welton, Frank E. Yeomans (eds.),” Psychiatric Times, November 26, 2024. www.psychiatrictimes.com
191. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Family Murders: Pathologies of Love and Hate by Susan Hatters Friedman, M.D/Committee on Psychiatry & the Law Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry/American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2018 May 14, 2019 (Volume 23, Issue 20); https://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=8262&cn=139
192. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and Cultural Perspectives by Harry Minas and Milton Lewis (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2017. Aug 7, 2018 (Volume 22, Issue 32); http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7822
193. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness by Bruce Cohen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Feb 21, 2017 (Volume 21, Issue 8); http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7822
194. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Monsters, Demons & Psychopaths: Psychiatry and Horror Film. by Fernando Espi Forcen. CRC Press, 2016. May 23rd, 2017, Volume: 21, Number: 21http://mhn.centersite.org/books/books.php?type=de&id=7874
195. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: A Heartfelt Memoir About Tay-Sachs. Genesis: Born with Tay-Sachs by Cary M. Berman, Infinity Publishing; 2015. Psychiatric Times. August 02, 2016. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/heartfelt-memoir-about-tay-sachs
196. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man (with an emphasis on Logotherapy & Viktor Frankl) in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: Proceedings of the Viktor Frankl Institute, Volume I (ed. A. Batthyany). Springer International AG, Char, 2016.
197. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: Proceedings of the Viktor Frankl Institute, Volume I edited by A. Batthyany, Springer International, 2016. http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7783&cn=397
198. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Madness and Civilization by Andrew Scull, Princeton University Press, 2015. Metapsychology, Nov 3rd, 2015 (Volume 19, Issue
45) http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7510&cn=139
199. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s by Mary De Young, McFarland, 2015. Metapsychology: Jun 10th, 2015 (Volume 19, Issue 24). http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7411&cn=139
200. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Generation Dada: The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War by Michael White. Yale University Press, 2013. Metapsychology: Dec 30th, 2014 (Volume 18, Issue 1). http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7313
201. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction by Gary B. Ferngren. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Jul 8th, 2014 (Volume 18, Issue 28). http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7199
202. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Controlling Your Drinking: Tools to Make Moderation Work for You, Second Edition, by William R. Miller and Ricardo F. Muñoz. Guilford Press, 2013. Metapsychology: May 6, 2014 (Volume 18). http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/center_index.php?id=324.
203. Film Review: Packer, Sharon: Six Million and One (Fisher, 2011) May 01, 2014. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/apa2014/six-million-and-one#sthash.iEHaSc1s.dpuf Online May 2014.
204. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition by Emily A. Kuriloff. Routledge, 2013. Metapsychology: Oct 15, 2013 (Volume 17, Issue 42).
205. Film Review: Man of Steel Review, Psychiatric Times, 2013.
206. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: The Significance of Religious Experience by Howard Wettstein. Oxford University Press, 2012. Metapsychology: May 28, 2013 (Volume 17, Issue 22) http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6879&cn=0
207. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Learning Supportive Psychotherapy: An Illustrated Guide (Core Competencies in Psychotherapy) by Arnold Winston, Richard N. Rosenthal and Henry Pinsker. APPI, 2012. Metapsychology, Jan 15, 2013 (Volume 17, Issue 3). http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6751&cn=397
208. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality by
Margot Weiss. Duke UP, 2012. Metapsychology. Oct 30th, 2012 (Volume 16, Issue 44). http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6333&cn=394 Packer, Sharon: “Preventing Seasonal Affective Disorder.” SoHo Life, October 2012.
209. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Portrait of a Psychiatrist as a Young Man by Alan Beveridge. Oxford UP, 2011. Metapsychology. Dec 13, 2011 (Volume 15, Issue 50).
210. http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6333&cn=394
211. Film Review: Packer, Sharon: “Thor: From Myth to Marvel Comics to Movies to Medical Commentary” HCPLive. 8/26/11. http://www.hcplive.com/pop-medicine/Thor-From-Myth-toMarvel-Comics-to-Movies-to-Medical-Commentary.
212. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Graphic Women by Hilary Chute. Columbia UP, 2010. Metapsychology. 8/23/11 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6200&cn=166
213. Film Review: Packer, Sharon: “Swan Moms, Tiger Moms, & Mad Moms in Black Swan & Requiem for a Dream: A look at the role mothers play in the downfall of their children in the films Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream. HCPLive. 3/22/11. http://www.hcplive.com
214. Film Review: Packer, Sharon: “Recalling Total Recall” http://www.hcplive.com/publications/mdngNeurology/2011/february_2011/psych_in_film
215. Film Review: Packer, Sharon: “Recalling Total Recall”. MDng Magazine, Psychiatry/Neurology Edition. February 2011.
216. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Consciousness & the Novel. Psychiatric Services 54:1554, Nov 2003.
217. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Jews, Medicine, and Medieval Society. Journal History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. June 51(3):367-369; 1996.
218. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Myth & Madness: The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.
219. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Freud & Moses. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.
220. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Self, Struggle, & Change. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.
221. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Twelve Jewish Steps to Recovery. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.
222. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Mourning & Mitzvah. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.
223. Book Review: Ultimate Intimacy: The Psychodynamics of Jewish Mysticism. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.
224. Book Review: Circle in the Square: Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabalistic Symbolism. Bulletin of Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.
225. Book Review: Religion's Challenge to Psychology. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.
226. Book Review: 100 Blessings Every Day. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.
227. Book Review: Auschwitz, A Doctor's Story. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.
228. Book Review: Lingering Shadows: Freudians, Jungians, and Anti-Semitism. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.
229. Book Review: The Jung Cult. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.
230. Book Review: Bettelheim. Jewish Book Review, 1996.
231. Book Review: Dreamtime. International Psychohistorical Association, 1993.
232. Packer, Sharon: "Insiders, Outsiders, & Others." Essay for Artists in Mental Health Exhibit, Newark Museum Catalogue, 1992.
233.
190. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Packer, Sharon: “Supervising Individual Psychotherapy: The Guide to ‘Good Enough’, by Katherine G. Kennedy, Randon S. Welton, Frank E. Yeomans (eds.),” Psychiatric Times, November 26, 2024. www.psychiatrictimes.com
191. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Family Murders: Pathologies of Love and Hate by Susan Hatters Friedman, M.D/Committee on Psychiatry & the Law Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry/American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2018 May 14, 2019 (Volume 23, Issue 20); https://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=8262&cn=139
192. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and Cultural Perspectives by Harry Minas and Milton Lewis (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2017. Aug 7, 2018 (Volume 22, Issue 32); http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7822
193. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness by Bruce Cohen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Feb 21, 2017 (Volume 21, Issue 8); http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7822
194. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Monsters, Demons & Psychopaths: Psychiatry and Horror Film. by Fernando Espi Forcen. CRC Press, 2016. May 23rd, 2017, Volume: 21, Number: 21http://mhn.centersite.org/books/books.php?type=de&id=7874
195. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: A Heartfelt Memoir About Tay-Sachs. Genesis: Born with Tay-Sachs by Cary M. Berman, Infinity Publishing; 2015. Psychiatric Times. August 02, 2016. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/heartfelt-memoir-about-tay-sachs
196. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man (with an emphasis on Logotherapy & Viktor Frankl) in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: Proceedings of the Viktor Frankl Institute, Volume I (ed. A. Batthyany). Springer International AG, Char, 2016.
197. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: Proceedings of the Viktor Frankl Institute, Volume I edited by A. Batthyany, Springer International, 2016. http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7783&cn=397
198. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Madness and Civilization by Andrew Scull, Princeton University Press, 2015. Metapsychology, Nov 3rd, 2015 (Volume 19, Issue
45) http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7510&cn=139
199. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s by Mary De Young, McFarland, 2015. Metapsychology: Jun 10th, 2015 (Volume 19, Issue 24). http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7411&cn=139
200. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Generation Dada: The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War by Michael White. Yale University Press, 2013. Metapsychology: Dec 30th, 2014 (Volume 18, Issue 1). http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7313
201. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction by Gary B. Ferngren. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Jul 8th, 2014 (Volume 18, Issue 28). http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7199
202. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Controlling Your Drinking: Tools to Make Moderation Work for You, Second Edition, by William R. Miller and Ricardo F. Muñoz. Guilford Press, 2013. Metapsychology: May 6, 2014 (Volume 18). http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/center_index.php?id=324.
203. Film Review: Packer, Sharon: Six Million and One (Fisher, 2011) May 01, 2014. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/apa2014/six-million-and-one#sthash.iEHaSc1s.dpuf Online May 2014.
204. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition by Emily A. Kuriloff. Routledge, 2013. Metapsychology: Oct 15, 2013 (Volume 17, Issue 42).
205. Film Review: Man of Steel Review, Psychiatric Times, 2013.
206. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: The Significance of Religious Experience by Howard Wettstein. Oxford University Press, 2012. Metapsychology: May 28, 2013 (Volume 17, Issue 22) http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6879&cn=0
207. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Learning Supportive Psychotherapy: An Illustrated Guide (Core Competencies in Psychotherapy) by Arnold Winston, Richard N. Rosenthal and Henry Pinsker. APPI, 2012. Metapsychology, Jan 15, 2013 (Volume 17, Issue 3). http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6751&cn=397
208. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality by
Margot Weiss. Duke UP, 2012. Metapsychology. Oct 30th, 2012 (Volume 16, Issue 44). http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6333&cn=394 Packer, Sharon: “Preventing Seasonal Affective Disorder.” SoHo Life, October 2012.
209. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Portrait of a Psychiatrist as a Young Man by Alan Beveridge. Oxford UP, 2011. Metapsychology. Dec 13, 2011 (Volume 15, Issue 50).
210. http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6333&cn=394
211. Film Review: Packer, Sharon: “Thor: From Myth to Marvel Comics to Movies to Medical Commentary” HCPLive. 8/26/11. http://www.hcplive.com/pop-medicine/Thor-From-Myth-toMarvel-Comics-to-Movies-to-Medical-Commentary.
212. Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Graphic Women by Hilary Chute. Columbia UP, 2010. Metapsychology. 8/23/11 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6200&cn=166
213. Film Review: Packer, Sharon: “Swan Moms, Tiger Moms, & Mad Moms in Black Swan & Requiem for a Dream: A look at the role mothers play in the downfall of their children in the films Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream. HCPLive. 3/22/11. http://www.hcplive.com
214. Film Review: Packer, Sharon: “Recalling Total Recall” http://www.hcplive.com/publications/mdngNeurology/2011/february_2011/psych_in_film
215. Film Review: Packer, Sharon: “Recalling Total Recall”. MDng Magazine, Psychiatry/Neurology Edition. February 2011.
216. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Consciousness & the Novel. Psychiatric Services 54:1554, Nov 2003.
217. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Jews, Medicine, and Medieval Society. Journal History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. June 51(3):367-369; 1996.
218. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Myth & Madness: The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.
219. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Freud & Moses. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.
220. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Self, Struggle, & Change. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.
221. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Twelve Jewish Steps to Recovery. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.
222. Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Mourning & Mitzvah. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.
223. Book Review: Ultimate Intimacy: The Psychodynamics of Jewish Mysticism. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.
224. Book Review: Circle in the Square: Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabalistic Symbolism. Bulletin of Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.
225. Book Review: Religion's Challenge to Psychology. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.
226. Book Review: 100 Blessings Every Day. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.
227. Book Review: Auschwitz, A Doctor's Story. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.
228. Book Review: Lingering Shadows: Freudians, Jungians, and Anti-Semitism. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.
229. Book Review: The Jung Cult. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.
230. Book Review: Bettelheim. Jewish Book Review, 1996.
231. Book Review: Dreamtime. International Psychohistorical Association, 1993.
232. Packer, Sharon: "Insiders, Outsiders, & Others." Essay for Artists in Mental Health Exhibit, Newark Museum Catalogue, 1992.
233.
NON-MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS
234. “The Holocaust Survivor in the Typewriter Repair Shop,” The Forward, February 21, 2024.
235. “Does Judith of The Walking Dead reference the Jewish Judith of the Chanukah Story?” in Women in Judaism, www.wij.org, 2022.
236. Packer, Sharon: “Daffodils as Antidepressants: What Wordsworth Knew” in SoHo Life, May 2013.
237. Packer, Sharon: “Daffodils as Antidepressants: What Wordsworth Knew” in Chelsea Life, May 2013.
238. Packer, Sharon: “Daffodils as Antidepressants: What Wordsworth Knew” in Morningside Heights Life, May 2013.
239. Packer, Sharon: “Busting the Myth of Holiday Blues.” SoHo Life, December 2012.
240. Packer, Sharon: “Busting the Myth of Holiday Blues.” Chelsea Life, December 2012.
241. Packer, Sharon: “Busting the Myth of Holiday Blues.” Morningside Hts Life, December 2012.
242. Packer, Sharon: Trance States at Thaipusam. Essay and Photojournalism, Ward-Nasse Gallery, NYC, 1994.
235. “Does Judith of The Walking Dead reference the Jewish Judith of the Chanukah Story?” in Women in Judaism, www.wij.org, 2022.
236. Packer, Sharon: “Daffodils as Antidepressants: What Wordsworth Knew” in SoHo Life, May 2013.
237. Packer, Sharon: “Daffodils as Antidepressants: What Wordsworth Knew” in Chelsea Life, May 2013.
238. Packer, Sharon: “Daffodils as Antidepressants: What Wordsworth Knew” in Morningside Heights Life, May 2013.
239. Packer, Sharon: “Busting the Myth of Holiday Blues.” SoHo Life, December 2012.
240. Packer, Sharon: “Busting the Myth of Holiday Blues.” Chelsea Life, December 2012.
241. Packer, Sharon: “Busting the Myth of Holiday Blues.” Morningside Hts Life, December 2012.
242. Packer, Sharon: Trance States at Thaipusam. Essay and Photojournalism, Ward-Nasse Gallery, NYC, 1994.
RESEARCH GRANTS:
244. 2001 Racial Revelation in the “Colorblind” Cyberclass (2001-2), grant supported by DIAL program, New School for Social Research and published in Race in the College Class (Rutgers UP)
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS:
- Dreams in Myth, Medicine, & Movies (Praeger, 2002):
Choice's (American Library Association) Best Academic Books, 2003
- The Colorblind Cyberclass in Race in the Class (ed. Tusmith & Reddy), 2002
American College Education Award, American Educational Studies Association Award
- Epidemic Ergotism and Jewish Mystical Movements,
Mesorah Society Award: Best Research Paper on the Interface between Psychiatry & Judaism, 1995
- Social Surrealism: Contemporary Medical Controversies (pastel and colored pencil on paper)
American Physicians' Art Association, Second Prize, 1995
- Letter of Commendation for resident supervision of medical students
New York Medical College, St. Vincent's Hospital, Teaching Award, 1983
ASSOCIATIONS & AFFILIATIONS
• American Medical Association• American Psychiatric Association,
- Distinguished Life Fellow
- Executive Ctte. Caucus on Religion & Spirituality
- Council on Addiction Psychiatry
• New York Academy of Medicine, Steering Ctte., History of Medicine• International Arts-Medicine Association
• American Association for the History of Medicine• Mesorah Society for Psychiatry & Traditional Judaism• American Association for Technology & Psychiatry• Academy for Eating Disorders• American Physicians' Art Association
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